Texas Brigade

The Texas Brigade was an infantry brigade of the Confederate States Army that was active from 22 October 1861 to 9 April 1865 during the American Civil War. The brigade was raised by Louis T. Wigfall, but John Bell Hood took over command in February 1862 after Wigfall entered the Confederate Congress. The brigade was attached to the Army of Northern Virginia and fought in all of its major battles (except for the Battle of Chancellorsville), and the Texas Brigade and the Stonewall Brigade were considered to be the army's shock troops. The brigade, which started the war with 5,353 troops in 1861, had only 617 remaining troops at the time of its April 1865 surrender to the Union at Appomattox Court House.